My Favorite Childhood Memory is.....

You took the words out of my mouth!!!!

Halloweens! Crisp air, the smell of firecrackers / fireworks, candy, making costumes, pumpkin carving and roasting pumpkin seeds.

I still love Halloween!

aahhh...Halloween....we would go out trick or treating and would have to stop back home to empty out trick or treat bag, so that we could continue some more. Did that a few times. We used to have bowls and bowls of goodies. There was  a woman accross the street from us that would give each kid a nickel and an apple. Oh, how we waited for that!! Then another woman down the street would give us a lollipop and apple cider to drink. We were afraid of her so we would toss out the cider when she wasn't looking...lol.

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Christmas Eve! It was the "real" holiday at our house - we opened up presents early and had shrimp and other traditional appetizers - then went to church and had a big open house afterwards. Candles - carols - snow - it was magical.

Riding Big Wheels down the side of the hill till we wore the tires off!!!....

I remember one summer in my small town neighborhood we set up a bunch on picnic tables in the front yard of my friends house. All the girls (probably about 8-13 in age) put on our white go-go boots and danced on the tables to among other songs "These Boots Are Made for Walking". The boys must have thought we had gone nuts. Our innocence is a lovely memory.

I'm going with the Christmas theme. Christmas eve we would go to my grandparent's house and have dinner with all the 'big people' around the big table and the children around the 'children's table', all was crowded in what we called the 'back porch' because the kitchen was not big enough for all to sit down. Everyone had to file in to their assigned seats in order and you couldn't get up until all were ready to get up or else you had to crawl under the table to get out. After dinner, we would pack ourselves into the living room, kids on the floor and parents on the couch, love seat and extra chairs brought in from the back porch. We would sing a few Christmas Carols and my grandfather would read the Christmas story out of Luke. Then we would get our presents. The older children (I was one of them) would debate who got to play Santa and hand out the presents. My grandfather passed away in 2005, but I can still hear him reading the Christmas story in my head. My grandmother will be 95 on Friday.

Sheila

Hello Tami from Idaho,

 I have wonderful memories of third grade in Bonner's Ferry, a really small town in northern Idaho.  We moved around alot so we lived there only for third grade.  I remember the first day of school when they served watermelon and corn on the cob at lunch, swinging on the bars on the playground, building a "fort" by nailing cardboard  to trees, sledding in the dark because it got dark so early in December, my dad and the neighbor taking us kids to see the "Aristocats" (Disney)

 Bonner's Ferry was a wonderful little town and I have fonder memories of it than other towns I lived in.  Donna

My Dad coming home safe from the Viet Nam war.

He brought me back wooden cats I still have.

Do you have any of the shells left Markaz?

House full of women and daddy was over seas in Japan. We had other military families in our neighborhood and everyone supported the families with daddies over seas. As the littlest one of all these families I was known as the Town Clown and I was up to just about any dare the kids set me up to. Jump on a moving train, did it. Catch a rat snake by the tail, did it. Talk trash to the biggest kid in the neighborhood, did it. It was everyday. I had so much fun and got into so much trouble. My mom let me keep just about any critter I dragged home in a mayo. jar. Lizards, mice, crayfish. She drew the line at the rat snake. When daddy came home I was so happy, but he laid down the law and our home became more of the norm. I don't regret him coming home, but I did miss all my critters. I guess 12 puppies, 9 cats, fish, birds, newts, hampsters and 3 dogs was a bit much for a 3 bedroom,house with 6 people living in it.